Written questions
2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.
13 Jul 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the need for additional guidance to ensure that post-war low-rise council blocks, not covered by the Building Safety Act, are proactively inspected
9 Jul 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British Nationals Abroad: Detainees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress she has made to introduce a Special Envoy for Complex and Arbitrary Detentions.
22 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing Ombudsman Service: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to improve the standards and tackle delays in the Housing Ombudsman Service.
29 May 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Trastuzumab Deruxtecan: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to lower the unit cost of the drug Enhertu.
20 May 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to help those migrating from legacy benefits to universal credit.
22 Apr 2026 · Treasury
Banks: Misconduct
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help ensure that regulators hold banks to account for financial misconduct.
28 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle excessive household water bills based on rateable values.
13 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Children: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve safeguarding practices in nurseries and early years settings.
19 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Service Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help protect social tenants not in receipt of housing benefit from increases in service charges.
30 Oct 2025 · Women and Equalities
Employment: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help protect female whistle-blowers in male-dominated industries.
27 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Educational Visits: EU Countries
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has held discussions with the EU on waiving the need for passports for school groups visiting the UK as part of his negotiations on a youth experience scheme.
9 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Students: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of statutory codification of the duty of care to students in higher education.
12 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Patients: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of abolishing NHS England on the NHS’s statutory duty to safeguarding.
28 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Cohabitation: Succession
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the inheritance rights of unmarried couples in cases were the couple where cohabiters for an extended period.
19 Apr 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Plastics: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce (a) single-use and (b) other plastic waste.
19 Apr 2024 · Home Office
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to issue his Department's guidance on the circumstances in which exceptions will be made for asylum seekers from countries on the safe list.
19 Apr 2024 · Department for Transport
Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of requiring all (a) e-bikes and (b) e-scooters to be registered to an owner.
19 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Continuing Care: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that people eligible for NHS continuing healthcare funding have access to services.
19 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pancreatic Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of Pancreatic Cancer UK's Optimal Care Pathway recommendations.
19 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hypnosis and Psychiatry: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that people operating as (a) hypnotherapists and (b) psychotherapists are (i) registered and (ii) regulated.
19 Apr 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade: Bullying
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many allegations of bullying have been made against Ministers by staff in her Department in each of the last 12 months.
26 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bullying
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many allegations of bullying have been made against Ministers by staff in his Department in each of the last 12 months.
26 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Heat Pumps
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Government meets its heat pump installation targets.
26 Mar 2024 · Department for Education
Pupils: Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that children with autism are adequately supported at school.
4 Mar 2024 · Department for Education
Schools: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 206 of the policy paper entitled National food strategy for England, updated in July 2021, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the implications for its policies of the
4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hypnosis and Psychiatry: Registration and Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that any person operating as a (a) hypnotherapist and (b) psychotherapist is (i) registered and (ii) regulated.
4 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Drinking Water: Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to prevent the leaching of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances into supplies of drinking water.
4 Mar 2024 · Department for Education
Assessments: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the impact on educational attainment of denial of mitigated circumstances for children whose parent or guardian passed away outside of the current six month cut off pr
4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce waste of NHS equipment that can be safely reused.
4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Long Covid
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to support people who have long covid.
Source: official written-questions record.